If You Want Me (Toronto Terror 2) by Helena Hunting-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 11, 2024

A standalone age-gap, dad’s best friend’s hockey romance.
There’s no one more off limits than my best friend’s daughter.

Peggy Aurora Hammerstein. The Toronto Terror’s unofficial team princess. I would never do anything to mess with our team dynamics this late into the hockey season, but seeing her work in the front office changed something for me.

I see her as she is now: a powerful woman with ambition for miles.
When I hold her against me, she fits perfectly.

Her little flirts and taunts push my buttons, if she doesn’t stop–my control just might break.
But I can never cross that line. I can never know what it could be to call her mine.

I’ve never wanted anyone more than Aurora and no one can ever know.

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REVIEW:IF YOU WANT ME is the second instalment in Helena Hunting’s contemporary, adult TORONTO TERROR erotic, hockey, romance series. This is thirty three year old hockey player Hollis Hendrix, and twenty-one year old, university student Peggy Aurora Hammerstein. IF YOU WANT ME can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Aurora and Hollis) IF YOU WANT ME follows the age-gap, father’s best friend relationship between our story line couple. Aurora Hammerstein is the daughter of Toronto Terror goalie Roman Hammerstein, and has been a team princess all of her life but Aurora has had a crush on her father’s teammate Hollis Hendrix since Hollis’ trade seven years earlier. Hollis and Roman are best friends, travel roommates and professional teammates and in this Hollis struggles with his attraction to our story line heroine but Aurora is always in Hollis’ orbit, and when Hollis is injured, Aurora becomes his nurse and lover without looking back. Trying to keep their relationship a secret is about to implode, and Hollis believes he may have lost more than his best friend but the woman he loves.

The world building is detailed and follows Aurora as she navigates her feelings for her father’s best friend. Knowing to lie to her father will break his heart but Aurora knows that Hollis is her own happily ever after. As Hollis battles between head and hear knowing he is about to destroy a friendship, our hero is willing to walk away in the face of their secrets and lies.

The relationship between Hollis and Aurora is a best friend’s daughter , forbidden relationship. Roman Hammerstein has forbidden his daughter from dating any and all hockey players but especially in the face of his own experiences when he was too young to understand. As Aurora and Hollis’ relationship moves into something more, Hollis must come to terms with his own injuries, and the love of a woman he has been forbidden to love. The $ex scenes are intimate, passionate and seductive without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

Once again, there is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting character including many of whom we met in the previous story line. We are reintroduce to Bea and Tristan (If You Hate Me), Dallas Bright, attorney Ashish Palaniappa, Flip Madden (Bea’s brother), PR manager Willy, Hemi, Dred, as well as Hollis’ ex Scarlet Reed, and Aurora’s mother.

IF YOU WANT ME is a story of secrets and lies, family and friendships, betrayal, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is edgy and heartwarming; the characters are animated, charismatic and stubborn; the romance is sizzling and spicy

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one IF YOU HATE ME

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Reviewed by Sandy

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FOLLOW: NYT and USA Today Bestselling author of The PUCKED Series, Helena Hunting lives outside of Toronto with her amazing family and her two awesome cats, who think the best place to sleep is her keyboard. Helena writes everything from contemporary romance to romance comedy, sports romance and angsty new adult romance.